Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Nose is classic GB. Richness, melon, slate, matchstick, creamed corn (garmanbozia!) custard, herbals, cantaloupe, dusty tree bark, spices and more. Palate is so intense and so concentrated with pulverized rock minerality and it’s so refined, so elegant and so pure. Huge lemon lime fruit and even some sweet green apple and dehydrated green apple skins. Impossibly complex and just that pulverized rock minerality. Unreal density without weight and such power and grace. Crazy acids and such breath on the fanned out finish. Young but such a stunner. Wow. So intense. One of, if not the best, GB. — 2 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Nose is so classic. Huge minerals and rocks. Almost no fruit. Maybe a hint of lime blossom. Really earthy as well. This smells like it was grown in dirt. Lemon. Some pink grapefruit pith. Palate is silky and so dry and focused on minerals and barely any fruit. Elegant and juicy with insane precision. Really high acid and just a driving mineral force and really long. So so good. This is one of the most essential Steinmetz wines. — 2 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

HUGE botrytis on the nose. Honeyed peaches. Saffron. Gotta be brief as I am running late but wow. So big yet so nimble and finishes dry tasting. Awesome acidity and so clean and so clear. Profound! — 2 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Wow that nose penetrates. Deep honey, minerals and lime blossoms. Lime zest as well. Green apple and pear and such depth to the nose. Gorgeous. 9.7 nose. Haunting. Has that extra that serves this up into the stratosphere. Wow this is unreal. Elegant with crushed rock minerality, green apple, pear and some citrus fruit but has this zen serene quality to it that is to die for. Just brilliant. So pure and balanced. Unreal amplitude on the palate and so zesty. A perfect orb of wehlener sonnenuhr. Finish is an elegant and dissipated so beautifully. Utterly classic but lifted by an extra profundity. — 2 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Nose is so classic. Huge minerals and a dash of honey, melon, wild mint, apricot and peach. Unreal crushed rock minerality. Huge herbals and smells like the best garden ever. Oh wow what a palate. So caressing and engaging with warm hug acidity and that pulverized rock minerality, honey, peaches and awesome purity, energy and balance. So clean and so utterly classic. Stunning. Lovely honeyed element on the finish. — 2 days ago

Matthew Cohen

9.7

Terrific. So dense. Big minerals and acids.

Not a typical Mosel Riesling. Much more Rheinhesseny.

Nose: peach skin. Some mountain stream. Yellow peaches. Confectionery.

Palate Candied pink grapefruit pith. Perfect peach. Huge fruit. Unreal deliciousness. Amazing density. The fruit of an auslese but dry. Sweet minerals. Sick spice. Amazing balance in a big frame.

Ultimately really effing delicious.

Fass selections — 8 days ago

Kamall

8.9

Very balanced, fresh and subtle — 2 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

I love this bottling. Nose has that crushed rock minerality and vulcanized rubber. Herbs, apricots and kumquats. It has that small citrus and stone fruit thing going on. Wow that is concentrated and has insane off the wall minerality but it’s so round and juicy and caressing. This is so elegant and so refined and has such grace and class. A big step up from Grafeneberg in refinement and complexity. Palate has so much lime zest, lime blossom and lime flower. Zesty with tremendous acids and finishes very very mineral. Cut from a diamond style Riesling. Wow. So so impressive. — 2 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Always the fruitiest of Stefan’s Kabis and this has honey, apricot and peach aromas and wonderful effusive minerality that is layered and 4 dimensional. Herbal and slatey. Gorgeous. Super stoney and mineral palate with unreal honey, peach and apricot fruit but still comes across as sternly mineral and dry tasting on the finish. So complex and elegant and that insane crushed rock minerality and so pure. This is like from a mountain stream that produces riesling. Now with air there is vulcanized rubber and so much mineral. The fruitiness is there but the minerals are coming on strong. Awesome acidity, freshness and so much tension. A great Grafenberg. — 2 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Been a very long time and this is showing so so well. Nose is mid season cherries, cranberry bog, desiccated orange rind, slate and soil tones. So deep and soulful. Palate is like a cloud. So juicy but lithe and ethereal. Really floats but has stunningly persistent acidity and such purity. Wonderful. Elegant and balanced. Gorgeous wine. Sweetened up overnight and got so much more focused. 9.3 to 9.4. — 2 months ago